Abstract
This study considers the criminal cases against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, former Kurdish terrorist leader Abdullah Ocalan, and the Libyan intelligence agents who bombed Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie Scotland, as they could be handled under the Rome Statute creating the new International Criminal Court to demonstrate the ICC's potential usefulness in the face of American political resistence to the court's creation. This article was part of a symposium held in 1999 at Michigan State University.